“At 109, Slave’s Daughter Revels In Historic Vote”
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November 5, 2008, 6:27 pm
Filed under: Politics (Eww...), Reflections on Others | Tags: 109 years old, Amanda Jones, Barack Obama, first black president, NPR, Obama, slave daughter, slavery, vote
Filed under: Politics (Eww...), Reflections on Others | Tags: 109 years old, Amanda Jones, Barack Obama, first black president, NPR, Obama, slave daughter, slavery, vote
No matter how you voted, I think this article is a beautiful story for not only black Americans but all of us.
“Along a rural highway in central Texas sits a small white house with some cows grazing out back and a wheelchair ramp leading to the front screen door. Inside that house lives Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a slave. No one in her family, least of all Jones, thought she would live long enough to vote for the man who is to become the first black president…[more]“
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Good article.
Comment by Tim November 6, 2008 @ 4:26 pmAppreciated this line:
“Jones is the living link between the time when black men were owned as property and the time when a black man has been elected president of the United States.”